As many as 26 Ministers of the Narendra Modi Government will visit Jammu & Kashmir between January 18 and 24 and hold a series of meetings to create awareness about the Center’s welfare schemes and development plans.
Senior Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani, Jitendra Singh, Thawar Chand Gehlot and many Ministers handling infrastructure, education, agriculture and animal husbandry, civil aviation, urban development and power will visit the Union territory and hold as many 51 meeting as part of the Centre’s strategy to usher in an era of peace and development in the region.
In Srinagar alone, eight such meetings are planned to engage with public where Union Ministers will explain t Centre’s plans for the Union Territory.
Union Ministers Giriraj Sinhg, General VK Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Kiren Rijiju, RK Singh, Arjun Muda, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Anurag Thakur, G Kishen Reddy, V Muraleedharan, Pratap Sarangi, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Pralhad Joshi and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank are part of the list of 36 Union Ministers.
Minister of State for Home G Kishen Reddy has written a letter to Jammu & Kashmir Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, informing about the visit of the Ministers.
In his letter, Reddy said Home Minister Shah has desired that all members of the Union Council of Ministers pay a visit to Jammu & Kashmir, with the objective of disseminating information about the importance of the Centre’s policies for the overall development of the Union Territory and its people along with the steps taken by the Government particularly in the past five months after the abrogation of Article 370 provisions and bifurcation of erstwhile State.
The schedule for the visit of the Ministers will also be discussed and finalised at a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on January 17.
This will be the second round of visit by the Union ministers to Jammu & Kashmir after the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state on August 5.
Earlier this month, in one of the meetings of the council of ministers a presentation was also been made on the development initiatives taken by the Centre following the imposition of the governor rule in the region.
